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What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.

Joseph Campbell

You can’t have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules
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Creativity Leaving Rule Yourself
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
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Alive Believe Experience Life Meaning Myself People
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means ‘filled with a god,’ so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That’s where your life is.
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Divine Follow God Message Power Word Yourself
A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder. Fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won.
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Day Decision Victory Win World
The Fates guide those who will and drag those who won’t!
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Fate Guide Journey Path
I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don’t let anyone throw you off.
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Body Feeling Soul Stay Student Yourself
You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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Life Move Order Planning Time Wait Yourself
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
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Law Life Onself Survive
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact.
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Beyond Fact Information
Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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Curse Inspirational Instrument Perspective Respect
You’ve got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.
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Condition Follow Life Miracle Rule
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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Fact Forget People Remember Story
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
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Dimension Forever Future Past
The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.
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Fascination Fire Interest Mystery
If you want the whole thing, the gods will give it to you. But you must be ready for it.
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God Inspirational Patience Yourself
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
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Ideas Innovation Spontaneous Yourself

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